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The wound inflammatory response exacerbates growth of pre-neoplastic cells and progression to cancer.

ABSTRACT: There is a long-standing association between wound healing and cancer, with cancer often described as a "wound that does not heal". However, little is known about how wounding, such as following surgery, biopsy collection or ulceration, might impact on cancer progression. Here, we use a translucent zebrafish larval model of Ras(G12V)-driven neoplasia to image the interactions between inflammatory cells drawn to a wound, and to adjacent pre-neoplastic cells. We show that neutrophils are rapidly diverted from a wound to pre-neoplastic cells and these interactions lead to increased proliferation of the pre-neoplastic cells. One of the wound-inflammation-induced trophic signals is prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). In an adult model of chronic wounding in zebrafish, we show that repeated wounding with subsequent inflammation leads to a greater incidence of local melanoma formation. Our zebrafish studies led us to investigate the innate immune cell associations in ulcerated melanomas in human patients. We find a strong correlation between neutrophil presence at sites of melanoma ulceration and cell proliferation at these sites, which is associated with poor prognostic outcome.

SUBMITTER: Antonio N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4585460 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The wound inflammatory response exacerbates growth of pre-neoplastic cells and progression to cancer.

Antonio Nicole N Bønnelykke-Behrndtz Marie Louise ML Ward Laura Chloe LC Collin John J Christensen Ib Jarle IJ Steiniche Torben T Schmidt Henrik H Feng Yi Y Martin Paul P

The EMBO journal 20150701 17

There is a long-standing association between wound healing and cancer, with cancer often described as a "wound that does not heal". However, little is known about how wounding, such as following surgery, biopsy collection or ulceration, might impact on cancer progression. Here, we use a translucent zebrafish larval model of Ras(G12V)-driven neoplasia to image the interactions between inflammatory cells drawn to a wound, and to adjacent pre-neoplastic cells. We show that neutrophils are rapidly d ...[more]

PMID: 26136213

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The wound inflammatory response exacerbates growth of pre-neoplastic cells and progression to cancer.

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